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The First Symptoms of Monkeypox to Look For “Monkeypox usually begins with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, achiness, and swelling of lymph nodes,” says Dr. Jay Varma, MD ...
The distinctive features of monkeypox happen after the first symptoms, said Dr. Aileen Marty, professor of infectious diseases in the Department of Medicine at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of ...
The global spread of monkeypox has led to some of those infected developing painful symptoms, including lesions that may appear on various parts of the body.
The first monkeypox case in a human was diagnosed in 1970. Since then, most infections have been concentrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.
In September 2017, Orthopoxvirus monkeypox was reported in Nigeria. The subsequent outbreak was, at that time, the largest ever outbreak of clade II of the virus, with 118 confirmed cases. Unlike previous outbreaks of this clade, infection was predominantly among young male adults and human-to-human transmission appears to have readily occurred.
The monkeypox virus is a zoonotic virus belonging to the genus Orthopoxvirus, which itself is a member of the family Poxviridae (also known as the poxvirus family). [9] Of note, the Orthopoxvirus genus includes the variola virus that prior to eradication via the advent of the smallpox vaccine, was the cause of the infectious human disease known as smallpox. [10]
The first monkeypox case in a human was diagnosed in 1970. Since then, most infections have been concentrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.
Testing of both the child and the prairie dog confirmed the monkeypox virus as the causative agent. [6] Between May 15, 2003, when the three-year-old index patient was first diagnosed through June 20, the date of the last patient with a laboratory-confirmed case of monkeypox, a total of 71 people ranging in age from 1 to 51 were infected. [3]